Re: Satellite radio (was: Stereo install)

From: Bill Pitz (dakota@billpitz.com)
Date: Thu Jan 26 2006 - 01:28:56 EST


Jason Bleazard wrote:
> We got an XM radio from my dad when we were back in Utah. For some reason, he
> had a spare sitting around, and told me if I signed up for an account I could
> have the radio. He and most of his airplane group use XM in their planes.
> I'm not sure why they went with XM instead of Sirius, it seems to be that one
> of them started the trend and the rest of them decided they'd all like to be
> on the same system or something.

XM is primarily big in the general aviation community because of their
extensive weather services.

http://www.xmradio.com/weather/aviation.html

It's built into many new aviation electronics from Garmin and others.
Neat stuff.

-Bill



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